With the announcement that Legion is coming on August 30th, here is a list of things to get done before the Legion prepatch hits! Before an expansion launches, there is a prepatch where class and UI updates are added, while some other types of content are removed. We do not know when the Legion prepatch is coming, but with the expansion on August 30th, your time is limited to get some content and achievements done.

Adding to our collection of Warlords PvE guides, we have a new Warlords of Draenor Challenge Mode guide! With Challenge Mode rewards being increased to ilvl 660 in Patch 6.1, now is the perfect time to read up on this difficult content.

Patch 6.0 is the pre-patch for Warlords of Draenor and it has many notable changes such as the item squish and toy box. This guide focuses on the mounts, pets, titles, and other items that you want to collect before 6.0 hits since they're going away!

Fiery Mechanical Horse Mount

The official @Warcraft Twitter recently posted a teaser and picture of a new mount. The tweet text seems to imply that the mount could be an upcoming Recruit-A-Friend reward. It could well relate to this placeholder mount: The Equinator!

Challenge Mode Reward Updates

Blizzard has just posted a blog which details changes to the Challenge Mode rewards issued when the current "season" ends.

Some rewards are getting big changes, notably the Silver reward mounts from Ancestral Phoenix Egg are now account-wide plus you automatically know all four color variations instead of having to pick one color. In addition, the nine titles for Realm Best times are being completely removed.

Watcher later posted clarifications on why the Realm Best titles are being permanently removed, which we've added to our blog.

* Reward ClarificationsWith the upcoming end of the Challenge Mode Season, we wanted to provide some additional clarification on how we plan to handle rewards.Achievements: All Achievements associated with Mists of Pandaria Challenge Modes will become Feats of Strength.Rewards

Bronze: The “Undaunted” title for achieving a full set of Bronze medals will become account-wide.Silver: The Pandaren Phoenix mounts a

Today's weekend guide covers Challenge Modes, a new type of dungeon introduced in Mists of Pandaria.

They're a great way to cap Valor Points, not to mention learning more about your class outside of a raid setting. You can also get a ton of achievement points and unique rewards along the way!

In this guide, we've previewed all the rewards you can achieve, from transmog gear to mounts, and gone over special gearing and zone rules. We've also included links to helpful walkthrough videos of each zone as well as Blizzard's realm leaderboards. Finally, we made a list of unconventional items that can help shave off seconds on your run, such as Rod of Ambershaping for crowd control.

Today we have a list of all the other recent fansite interviews with Blizzard Lead Developers. They cover a variety of topics including Mists endgame, dailies, pet battles, and the Brawler's Guild, and include transcripts, podcasts, and video interviews--so there's bound to be some topic and format that suits your tastes!

In addition, there are some "Fast Patch" notes for 5.1.0A that mainly cover some bug fixes for pet battles and Macs.

We also want to highlight OpenRaid'srecent redesign, which has a brand-new layout as well as a news section, event roster pages, enhanced friends lists, and user profiles with tooltips.

OpenRaid makes finding a group for any raid or dungeon easy, whether you want to run an old raid for achievements or need a group for Challenge Modes. To learn more about OpenRaid, listen to the Hearthcast Interview and check out their tutorial.

If you're ever wondered what it's like to make art for Blizzard, you should also check out WoW Insider's interview with Jessica Dinh, one of the winners of Blizzard's first Student Art Ccontest. The winners got to spend several months interning at Blizzard and even put some finishing touches on Mists of Pandaria!

5.1 Reputation Changes

While the reputation grinds in Mists of Pandaria try some innovative things like removing reputation from tabards in dungeons, many players were not looking forward to repeating the grind on their alts. In 5.1, each faction now has a special commendation that can be purchased at Revered from quartermasters which unlocks a 100% bonus reputation gain for all characters on the account.

The Battle.net World Championship is going on this entire weekend, starting on Friday, November 16th, at 6:00pm PST--and we've got all the information you need to follow along and watch the live events you want! In addition to the finals of the StarCraft II World Championship Series, there's some competition that will definitely interest WoW players as well.

The Challenge Mode Dungeons race between top guilds Stars and Supreme Quicksand is shaping up to one of the Championship highlights for WoW players. Watching teams race each other in Challenge Modes was a player-favorite at the Mists of Pandaria Launch event, and now players can watch even more races in challenge mode dungeons and the live Mogu'shan Vaults raid! With Leaderboards up, players can check them to see how these elite guilds stack up on stage against the record times currently established around the world.

In addition, the World of Warcraft Arena Global Finals are also going on, with the top two teams from each global region competing for a prize pool totaling $189,000.

In today's news round up, we cover posts addressing BoA flying, LFR loot, Blingtron, and Conquest Points, and if raiding is your thing, be sure to check out Friday's post on Tier 14 scheduling changes. But if you're looking for news that's Halloween-themed, check out WoW Insider's guide to the spookiest places in Azeroth!

Challenge Mode Armor Procs

For achieving gold in every Challenge Mode run, players will be rewarded with a class-specific set of armor for transmogrification--but it doesn't stop there. In addition to unique artwork, these armor sets have special visual effects that proc on different abilities.

To whet players' appetites, Blizzard released a bunch of eyecatching videos this week that show off all the visual procs from Challenge Mode armor.You don't need to be wearing the armor for these effects to proc--just transmogrify them. Are you a fan of something over-the-top like the Shaman set bursting into flames, or something more understa